In 2009 the Court decided 120 cases.  59 were decided by unanimous decision while 17 were decided by a bare majority 5-4 vote.  Among the Court’s most noteworthy decisions, it applied a flexible and purposive reading to statutory requirements regarding the initiative and referendum process, delivered a significant opinion applying the political question doctrine to an action seeking to compel the president of the Senate to forward a bill to the House of Representatives, and ruled that the right to counsel guaranteed by the Washington State Constitution is more expansive than the right to counsel guaranteed by the United States Constitution.

Details are now posted on the 2009 Year In Review page, which includes summaries of the ten most noteworthy decisions of 2009.